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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
Fabius
also: Fabius Cunctator, Fabius Maximus
Q. Fabius Maximus 'Cunctator' (the Delayer), the dictator whose strategy of avoidance and delay wore down Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §2.7.1 Fabius Verrucosus
Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus 'Cunctator,' the dictator of the Hannibalic war; quoted for calling a grudgingly given benefit 'gritty bread.'
- On Mercy §1.9 Paulus and Fabius Maximus and the Cossi and the Servilii
A roll-call of the great Augustan noble houses — Aemilii Pauli, Fabii Maximi, Cornelii Cossi, Servilii — whose weight Augustus invokes to deflate Cinna's pretensions to power.
- On Anger §1.11 Fabius
Q. Fabius Maximus 'the Delayer,' who saved Rome from Hannibal by patient avoidance — conquering his own anger, Seneca says, before he conquered Hannibal.